Tévez was suspended by City following claims from manager Roberto Mancini he refused to play as a substitute in the Champions League fixture with Bayern Munich.

Mancini stated Tévez is “finished” at the club in the immediate aftermath of the game, but the Argentine contends he did not refuse to play and the incident was a misunderstanding.

It will be a week tomorrow before Tévez will be allowed to train with the club again. Whatever the outcome of the club’s review, there is little doubt his standing with the City faithful has been destroyed as much as his relationship with his manager.

His fall from hero to zero has been underlined with his tumble from the top to the bottom of the club’s shirt sales.

The City fans made their feelings for him clear following the Champions League fixture, brandishing banners with “Tévez Out” at last weekend’s Premier League game at Blackburn.

But the love affair between Tévez and the Eastlands faithful was already over judging by their sharp decline in merchandise bearing his name.

Before his first transfer request last December, his name and No 2 sold by far the biggest number of jerseys in City’s club store.

Since then he has sold the fewest of the club’s big-name stars, with recent requests falling to none.